Crappy albums with one great song

Some fans dig Goblin's decidedly poppy 1982 album, Volo, others disavow it, but tucked away at the very end of Side B is a nice instrumental titled "Est," which was reworked for their score to the thriller Notturno.

Poppy is the last thing that comes to my mind when tryna describe this album. It's much closer sonically to KPM's 70s library music.

I don't think it deserves being loathed by the reviewers around here like it was. If you focus on the songwriting, arrangement and procuction, it's a much more enjoyable album than A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley. At least Goblin's Volo has some structure to it instead of being almost entirely organ noodling with """groundbreaking""" tape manipulation jerkery. Those self proclaimed prog experts are incredibly biased imho.

Edited by Hrychu - July 09 2024 at 19:35

"Poppy" as in popular.

Oh ok. I thought that by "poppy" you meant "pop music sounding". Thx for clarifying. ❤

I don't get the comparison to A Rainbow in Curved Air, either. That's a stretch. That's like comparing Relationship of Command by At the Drive In to Suzanne Ciani's Buchla improvisations. It doesn't compute.

Yeeeeah, perhaps it is a bit of a stretch. But the thing is, Progarchives has a uniform numeric star rating system, which in my opinion is as pointless as it can possibly be. And because every review posted here is required to conform to its rigid structure, the real context to the more ambiguous reviews really suffers in terms of communication with the reader, whose perception of that review can often be shaped by the star value. YMMV

verslibre wrote: Some fans dig Goblin's decidedly poppy 1982 album, Volo, others disavow it, but tucked away at the very end of Side B is a nice instrumental titled "Est," which was reworked for their score to the thriller Notturno. "Est" from Volo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIB1M_7fgNU "Est" from Notturno – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7XqFoFmieA

I messed up my first attempt to respond to this and I’m not sure how to delete it yet. But the first album I thought of was Volo and that exact track! That said, I listened to it more recently and wasn’t as impressed with it like I was the first time. Don’t get me wrong, they’re one of the few bands I’ve seen live, and I love them! They’ve just had better albums IMO.

Logan wrote: I have been on edge when being critical of it. Surely not a crappy album, but as close to this topic as I could think of without putting my brains on the rack (my brain on crack some might say).

Antoni wrote: I would call Yes' "Relayer" a 'half-album' because the side-long song "The Gates of Delirium" is great while the rest of the album is weak, in my opinion.

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Neon_meate wrote: Grumpyprogfan, I have waited years, searching for you in hopes to find you out in the wild to discuss music since so much of what you like aligns with what I like. But saying this statement makes me wish to take all the searching back.       This is your first forum post since joining two years ago, and you waited that long to "discuss music" with me?

I sent you a message but I have no idea if I did it correctly no rush on replying to it but i didn’t want to be rude on this thread and talk about unrelated subjects.